Maeve Reston

Writer

Maeve Reston no longer works for the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a political reporter who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Before joining The Times in 2006, Maeve covered education and the Texas Legislature at the Austin American Statesman, as well as Congress and the 2004 presidential campaign for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Maeve is an avid runner, but the best part of her day is the #campaignfashionreport.

Recent Articles

Riding a surge of voter discontent, Republicans seized control of the Senate on Tuesday, giving the GOP full command of Congress and promising a contentious final two years of the Obama administration.After months of voter surveys suggested a close battle for the Senate, the GOP romped into the...

After admiring the glazed pig turning on the spit at the "Defend Freedom" pork roast, Rick Perry was striding toward the stage when a master carver in an apron chased after him. "I'm a Perry guy now," Ed Naile of Deerfield quickly told Perry's New Hampshire advisor before returning to his post...

During a solemn service Wednesday morning at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary here, more than 100 people gathered to grieve for slain photojournalist James Foley as the family’s priest urged the community to pray not only for his family but “for those who have perpetrated this kind of evil.” News of...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has faced lots of creative attempts to decipher her plans for a second White House run. On Tuesday night, Jon Stewart tried trick questions about architecture, eliciting a more interesting response than most. As she's traveled the world on her epic book tour in recent months...

For decades, questions posed to Hillary Rodham Clinton have turned on the subject of hair. But for all the eyerolls, that famous coif — in all its scrunchie-to-bob iterations — has turned out to be a very helpful talking point. The occasion Thursday night was Tina Brown’s “Women In the World” conference...

Over the next two weeks, the Clinton Library and the National Archives will release as many as 33,000 pages of presidential records from Bill Clinton’s years in the White House — creating a trove of new documents for Hillary Clinton’s friends and foes to sift through as she weighs a 2016 presidential...